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I first met Craig at Black Rock Desert when we were running Thrust2 in 1983. He kind of busted in on us when we were in a technical meeting in Bruno’s…

The moments that helped define Le Mans' legend: we've been through triumphs and tragedies from numbers 100 to 90. Here, as chosen by our panel of experts, are the top…

Bentley's 2003 Le Mans victory was the result of a crack independent team operating within an automotive behemoth – its mastermind Brian Gush remembers the story

McLaren chassis designer Matthew Jeffreys remembers the MP4/8, the car in which Ayrton Senna valiantly took five wins against adversity in 1993 – including his last F1 victory

Thirty years on from a rain-soaked Donington Park, F1 still hasn’t seen anything like Ayrton Senna’s opening lap of the 1993 European GP. Matt Bishop remembers the magic

The traditional pre-season test at Phoenix International Raceway was usually a casual, under-the-radar affair – no fans to speak of, just a handful of photographers, sport writers and local reporters…

David Coulthard's 13th and final F1 win at the 2003 Australian GP was packed with incident from start to finish – a strong contender for the championship's best-ever opening race

Mark Blundell's astounding 1990 Le Mans lap is often held up as the greatest ever round the legendary circuit – he remembers it to Motor Sport

Silverstone celebrates its 75th anniversary as a grand prix circuit this year. Andrew Frankel looks back to the moment where a former RAF bomber base welcomed racing heroes for its first British Grand Prix

The Subaru Impreza 555 swept all before it in the WRC, and became an icon in the hands of Colin McRae – its design team leader remembers the epic tale

A tap on the shoulder, nothing more. I opened an eye, which even through its blear could see a large white Ford Falcon parked outside the pit garage. Panic. Where…

In a career spanning nearly 40 years, Jacky Ickx proved himself to be one of the true greats of motor racing. Hugely successful and versatile, he raced at the highest…

Mauro Forghieri designed the cars that gave Mario Andretti his first Formula 1 win, as well as sports car success. The 1978 world champion recalls Ferrari's "inspirational" engineer who was determined to win at all costs

With a terse eight words a decade ago, Kimi Räikkönen coined his F1 epitaph, with the series' most-celebrated radio message. More than a meme, writes Damien Smith, it's a throwback to the classic racing spirit

Ari Vatanen 1985 Monte-Carlo: 1st Comebacks don’t get bigger than this. Going up against Walter Röhrl in the mountains above Monte Carlo was usually a fruitless endeavour, as the Audi…

This might sound big-headed but when it came to my rivals I always believed I was as good as, if not better, than all of them. You have to have…

There’s a brutalist magnificence to the concrete sweep of the Mirafiori factory in Turin: a facility that was first inaugurated in 1939 under the gaze of Benito Mussolini – after…